Gemma 4 26B A4B
· verified October 13, 2026
public paid api free open-weights vision local
Provider
Statuspublic
AA Intelligence Index16.7 (official, read October 13, 2026)
Released2026-04-03
Context window262K
ModalitiesText + image + video
API price $/1M (in / out)$0.09 / $0.3 (OpenRouter)
Speedn/a
AccessAPI $0.09/$0.3 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter · free route on OpenRouter (google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free) · open weights · listed April 3, 2026
In one line
Gemma 4 26B A4B by Google, measured by Artificial Analysis at 16.7 on the Intelligence Index, 39.3 on coding and 2.9 on agentic work. Added to WhichAI automatically from live data on October 13, 2026: no editorial review yet, so judge it by the numbers, not by a verdict. OpenRouter's description: “Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is an instruction-tuned Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Google DeepMind.”
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